My life is a hackathon

At CFUnited yesterday Adobe announced plans to support "Cloud Computing" in their upcoming version of ColdFusion 9, currently in beta. Not a lot of details were given (including pricing) but the following bullet points are available from Ben Forta's site: The current CPU based ColdFusion licensing, including no…

Joe Rinehart is proposing a new development stack for rapid, RIA development that includes some of my favorite and most used technologies: Business layer written in Groovy (Java) JPA and Hibernate for database persistence Spring for the service layer Coldspring / Model-Glue / ColdFusion for the presentation layer JMS and Swiz for…

I finally got around to getting my EC2 instance up and running. I debated upon using an Open BlueDragon, Windows 2003 or Railo AMI. I finally decided upon the Railo image after a collegue (you know who you are) spoke highly about Railo. I found a really good tutorial on…

I had a few minutes to spare this morning so I thought I would install Open BlueDragon on one of our dev servers. In case you don't know, Open BlueDragon is an open source version of BlueDragon, an alternative J2EE CFML engine to Adobe ColdFusion. We have the commercial version…

We have a content management system that has been in production for a couple of years on the same server running CFMX7. I don't believe we've done anything to the server recently. Today the CMS generated a client's site incorrectly. The Javascript didn't work right nor did any Flash. I…